Told in the Coffee House

About this eBook

Author

Ramsay, Allan, 1684-1758

Title

Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales

Credits

Produced by Ritu Aggarwal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Folklore -- Turkey

Category

Text

eBook-No.

30577

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30577

Release Date

December 2, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.TOLD IN THE COFFEE HOUSE — Told in the Coffee House
3. 3.Turkish Tales — Collected and done into English by CYRUS ADLER AND ALLAN RAMSAY — New York — The Macmillan Company — London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1898 All rights reserved — Copyright , 1898, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.HOW THE HODJA SAVED ALLAH
7. 7.BETTER IS THE FOLLY OF WOMAN THAN THE WISDOM OF MAN
8. 8.THE HANOUM AND THE UNJUST CADI
9. 9.WHAT HAPPENED TO HADJI, A MERCHANT OF THE BEZESTAN
10. 10.HOW THE JUNKMAN TRAVELLED TO FIND TREASURE IN HIS OWN YARD
11. 11.HOW CHAPKIN HALID BECAME CHIEF DETECTIVE
12. 12.HOW COBBLER AHMET BECAME THE CHIEF ASTROLOGER
13. 13.THE WISE SON OF ALI PASHA
14. 14.THE MERCIFUL KHAN
15. 15.KING KARA-KUSH OF BITHYNIA
16. 16.THE PRAYER RUG AND THE DISHONEST STEWARD
17. 17.THE GOOSE, THE EYE, THE DAUGHTER, AND THE ARM
18. 18.THE FORTY WISE MEN
19. 19.HOW THE PRIEST KNEW THAT IT WOULD SNOW
20. 20.WHO WAS THE THIRTEENTH SON
21. 21.PARADISE SOLD BY THE YARD
22. 22.JEW TURNED TURK
23. 23.THE METAMORPHOSIS
24. 24.THE CALIF OMAR
25. 25.KALAIDJI AVRAM OF BALATA
26. 26.HOW MEHMET ALI PASHA OF EGYPT ADMINISTERED JUSTICE
27. 27.HOW THE FARMER LEARNED TO CURE HIS WIFE—A TURKISH ÆSOP
28. 28.THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS
29. 29.THE SWALLOW'S ADVICE
30. 30.WE KNOW NOT WHAT THE DAWN MAY BRING FORTH
31. 31.OLD MEN MADE YOUNG
32. 32.THE BRIBE
33. 33.HOW THE DEVIL LOST HIS WAGER
34. 34.THE EFFECTS OF RAKI — ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS. — By FLORA ANNIE STEEL, — TALES OF THE PUNJAB — TOLD BY THE PEOPLE. — By MRS. F. A. STEEL. — UNIFORM EDITION OF THE STORIES AND POEMS OF RUDYARD KIPLING. — Seven Volumes. 12mo. Cloth. $1.25 each. — PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. — THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. — LIFE'S HANDICAP. Stories of Mine Own People. — THE NAULAHKA. A Story of East and West. — UNDER THE DEODARS, THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW, AND WEE WILLIE WINKIE. — SOLDIERS THREE, THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS, and BLACK AND WHITE. — BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. — THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. — TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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